Job Description

When you join the Huntington Hospital team, you are aligning yourself with an organization whose values drive our philosophy of compassionate community care. Over the past 129 years, we’ve grown from a small 16-bed hospital to a nationally recognized healthcare leader with 619 beds. As part of our commitment to providing equitable, high-quality care to all members of our community, we embrace differences and work hard to create a place of belonging for our patients and our employees. When you join the Huntington family, you’ll be empowered to enact change that continuously improves our ability to deliver world-class care, with kindness and dignity, to all who need it.

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Compensation Range:

Anticipated compensation range of $26.00 - $31.20 / Hour depending on qualifications and experience.

Department:

877002 Community Health Worker Program

Expectations:

The Community Health Worker supports patients and their social and health needs by helping them navigate and access community resources, social services, and medical systems. Serves as a liaison between Cedars-Sinai, Huntington Health and the community to facilitate access to services through assessment, care coordination, and other case management activities. The Community Health Worker is community based but will often partner cross-functionally with external health and social agencies and internal Huntington Health Cedars-Sinai team members, including but not limited to, medical providers, social workers, and case managers to provide intensive personal support to patients to ensure that all health needs are met. This position requires flexibility of hours, including some evenings and weekends.

EDUCATION:
High School Diploma or GED required.
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and lived experience preferred.

EXPERIENCE/TRAINING:
One year of experience in community-level health education or related field required.
Two years of experience working with patients with high social needs including low SES, patients experiencing homelessness, mental illness, substance use disorders, or other underrepresented groups preferred.

LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
Preferred:
Community Health Worker Certification

SKILLS:
Ability to understand and embrace diverse cultures, communities and social contexts.
Ability to demonstrate effective problem-solving skills and recommend solutions.
Ability to convey and/or receive written/verbal information to/from various audiences in different formats.
Ability to promote and foster participation/collaboration among individuals and groups.
Ability to provide and/or support a level of work excellence and accuracy; recognize and address flaws or errors that others may overlook.
Ability to use software applications and operate technological devices (e.g., computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.).
Ability to demonstrate time management and priority setting skills.

Worker Type:

Regular

Full time

Shift:

Days

Job Tags

Full time, Shift work, Afternoon shift,

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